top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-16

NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-phone-surveillance-likely-unconstitutional-judge

13 years ago

748 upvotes – 231 comments

A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html

13 years ago

571 upvotes – 143 comments

If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/if-a-drone-strike-hit-an-american-wedding-wed-ground-our-fleet/282373/

13 years ago

480 upvotes – 354 comments

NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/16/an-nsa-coworker-remembers-the-real-edward-snowden-a-genius-among-geniuses/?partner=yahootix

13 years ago

372 upvotes – 171 comments

Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s NSA Whitewash

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177598/sad-decline-60-minutes-continues-weeks-nsa-whitewash

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 92 comments

RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/funding/

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 126 comments

Telegram - secure, free messaging

http://telegram.org/

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 219 comments

Water seems to flow freely on Mars

http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343?

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 161 comments

Surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/nsa-surveillance-critic-bruce-schneier-to-leave-post-at-bt/

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 71 comments

The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction

http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 17 comments

Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Bulk Collection of Phone Data

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/us/politics/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-data-program.html

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 3 comments

My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS

http://vertis.io/2013/12/16/unauthorised-litecoin-mining.html

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 120 comments

Amazon's German Workers Strike

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSBRE9BF0M220131216

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 334 comments

Mozilla in 2013

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/12/16/mozilla-in-2013/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 81 comments

Turn O(n^2) reverse into O(n)

https://github.com/nominolo/HTTP/commit/b9bd0a08fa09c6403f91422e3b23f08d339612eb

13 years ago

★ 24 Haskell
175 upvotes – 90 comments

Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers

http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/science-that-proves-the-9-to-5-day-is-hell-for-creative-workers/282331/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 96 comments

BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS

https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 49 comments

The end of the Facebook era

http://takeaswig.com/the-end-of-the-facebook-era

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 135 comments

Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays 4x more

http://www.developereconomics.com/still-building-consumer-apps-enterprise-pays-4x/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 92 comments

FDA: Antibacterial soaps could pose health risks

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/fda-antibacterial-soap/4038907/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 66 comments

Optimizing Nginx TLS Time To First Byte

http://www.igvita.com/2013/12/16/optimizing-nginx-tls-time-to-first-byte/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 12 comments

Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/15/amazon-takes-away-access-to-pu.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 64 comments

First, Let's Fire All The Managers

https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=573&i=15715&cs=7c855bfce2fd1c3860846954978b1181

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 79 comments

Bitcoin and the Byzantine Generals Problem

http://nonchalantrepreneur.com/post/70130104170/bitcoin-and-the-byzantine-generals-problem

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 81 comments

eBay remote code execution

http://www.secalert.net/2013/12/13/ebay-remote-code-execution/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 15 comments

Child Donated His Piggy Bank to NASA Got a Call From an Astronaut

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-6-year-old-who-donated-his-piggy-bank-to-nasa-just-got-a-call-from-an-astronaut/282336/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 33 comments

Jonathan Franzen: what's wrong with the modern world

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/13/jonathan-franzen-wrong-modern-world

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 45 comments

I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam

http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/i-am-an-idiot-0000167-v20n12

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 138 comments

Watsi Lands $1.5M Donation From Humble Bundle

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/16/healthcare-platform-watsi-lands-1-5-million-donation-gaming-startup-humble-bundle/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Khosla Ventures is joining the YCVC Program

http://blog.ycombinator.com/khosla-ventures-is-joining-the-ycvc-program

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

Don't commit when you're drunk

https://github.com/noidontdig/gitdown

13 years ago

★ 1.4k Ruby
89 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask HN: Help, I'm stuck on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913578

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments

Why It’s a Good Idea to Be a JavaScript Developer, and What it Takes to Be One

http://www.clientcide.com/deep-thoughts/why-its-a-good-idea-to-be-a-javascript-developer-and-what-it-takes-to-be-one/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 103 comments

Edward Snowden leaks: NSA 'debates' amnesty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25399345

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 55 comments

Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/12/16/jetbrains-st-petersburg-rd-lab-grows-moves-to-new-office/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 81 comments

'60 Minutes': NSA Good, Snowden Bad

http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/12/60-minutes-nsa-good-snowden-bad/356174/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Noam Chomsky – "On Anarchism" [video]

http://booktv.org/Watch/15167/quotOn+Anarchismquot.aspx

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 144 comments

A WebSocket Primer

http://caitiem.com/2013/12/02/a-websocket-primer/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

Unofficial WhatsApp API

https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup

13 years ago

★ 7.1k Python GPL-3.0
79 upvotes – 32 comments

Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip `Hit Us in the Gut'

http://blog.hubspot.com/uattr/qualcomm-apple-64-bit-chip-hit-us-in-gut

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 121 comments

The sculpture on the Moon

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/sculpture_on_the_moon_paul_van_hoeydonck_s_fallen_astronaut.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

I want

http://dcurt.is/the-future

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

Crowdtilt Raises a $23M Series B Led by A16Z

http://blog.crowdtilt.com/led-a16z-crowdtilt-raises-series-b/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

Arcade Space Invaders

http://www.computerarcheology.com/wiki/wiki/Arcade/SpaceInvaders

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

The TPP's Attack on Artists' Termination Rights

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/tpps-attack-artists-termination-rights

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

NSA speaks out on Snowden, spying [video]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-speaks-out-on-snowden-spying/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

http://pedrokroger.net/how-made-6000-7-days-with-ebook/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Norway Rejects Bitcoin As Currency; Taxes As Asset, Instead

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/1012225/norway-rejects-bitcoin-as-currency-taxes-as-assets-instead

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 72 comments

Basic Income Means Basic Freedom

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/12/15/basic-income-means-basic-freedom/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 148 comments

PhantomJS, Selenium, and Django: Headless Browser Testing for the Rest of Us

http://roverdotcom.github.io/blog/2013/12/12/phantomjs-selenium-and-django-headless-browser-testing-for-the-rest-of-us/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Google argues lawsuit concerning UK privacy should be brought in California

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/google-privacy-claim-uk-british-court-california

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

Monolithic Node.js

http://www.richardrodger.com/monolithic-nodejs#.Uq70yXgazCS

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments
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